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I got into a conversation with the woman who was selling me my salad at Quizno’s today. The proprietor of the place was gone for the day, so she was there from another Quizno’s, which she runs, to substitute for him.

I had had a new ID made on the base today, so I had worn a new red dress for my picture, a batik in a size 10 that is just loose enough on me to make me feel like a million dollars.

She picked right up on my joy at wearing a nice dress–within three sentences she was telling me about an upperscale dress shop that used to be next door to her Quizno’s.

Funny thing though . . . I hadn’t mentioned clothes.

How did she know that I would be interested in a top-notch place to buy them?

The clue was in the way I dressed and carried myself. Without a word, she saw that I have high standards for myself when I go out in public.

The more the world gravitates to the grunge look, the more people like me stick out. I kind of like that. We all get to choose our standards. But we don’t get to choose how people react to them. Those of us who believe that we show esteem for others by dressing nicely around them get a reputation for being people who value quality, and not just in our clothes. When we go to church dressed nicely, we show that we esteem God, too. Nothing but the best for my Lord and for the people who surround me!

I have heard several people say, within the last forty-eight hours since the Supreme Court decisions on gay marriage were publicized, that people who marry an opposite gender partner and stay married for life, raising several children, will not long be the norm. But those writers have gone on to say that there is an upside to that!

They have stated that it is now becoming possible to sit next to a stranger on a plane and, by finding out that they married at age 20, while still in college, and stayed with their same spouse for the next ten years, while having three children, to take an educated guess that those familymembers are Christians!

Not bad–being able to be a walking, talking testimony for Christ just by having a certain family configuration.

It won’t be long, folks. They say it won’t be long.

And, oh the chances you will have to speak of God’s grace in your life then.

For we Christians are no better than other people.

We just serve an awesome God, the only true God, who is better than the alternatives in every single way!!!